In the first part of this article, “The Five Whys Of The Trump Surprise,” I argued that the root cause of Donald Trump’s surprise win in the presidential election was economic: too many Americans – particularly white Americans in rural areas– have been left

Uber and other companies in the sharing economy have had to spend millions fighting city and state regulators that try to stifle innovative services. Now New York has moved to crush the home-sharing service Airbnb in the city’s five boroughs.

The invaluable International Business Times, under the direction of David Sirota, has been doing god’s work on the circumstances of the economic crisis of 2008, even though most of the rest of the country’s political class—including, sadly, the president—has moved on.

Costco Wholesale (COST) faces bigger problems than a monthly revenue miss that sent shares down $6 , or 4%, after the numbers were reported on Sept. 1. The company said it had revenues of $8.65 billion in July, against $8.64 billion a year earlier and that 12-month trailing revenue of $107.

UBS thinks the risk of a stock market crash is growing. The era of cheap debt and plentiful liquidity is slowly drawing to an end, according to a team of UBS analysts led by Paul Winter, making it harder to use credit to juice corporate profits.

The European Central Bank has taken extraordinary steps to resuscitate the economy, but it’s gone too far, say two power players. In June of 2014, Europe’s Central Bank slashed interest rates into negative territory, a move that was called unconventional and experimental.